Access Community Awareness Center Inc
Providing Needed Assistance to individuals and families so they can become self-reliant, self-sustain, and independent.
Mission
ACAC provides needed assistance to individuals and families to become empowered and self-sustaining.
Notes from the nonprofit
we are committed to assist every family, seniors, individuals, disable person in Central Florida area especially families on a low income and poverty. You can see the whole overview of the organization in our website acawarenesscenter.org
Ruling year
2016
Founder/CEO
Mrs. Brenda Santana
Main address
149 Sandalwood Dr.
Kissimmee, FL 34743 USA
EIN
81-1620453
NTEE code
Human Service Organizations (P20)
Community, Neighborhood Development, Improvement (S20)
Government and Public Administration (W20)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We are in need for grants to continue serving low income families, individuals, seniors , disable population in Orange, Seminole and Osceola county in Florida, as emergency funds for food, shelter in a hotel since Osceola County does not have shelter in the community. The donations will be for administrative expenses to seek full time employees besides the volunteers. Continuing families by empower them by referrals to different organizations such government, private corporations, and others nonprofits in the community. As result, the families will start to feel emotional stable with their daily life. Since Florida is a state that most are immigrant, they need guidance due to their lack of knowledge to make their life stable and legal in the State, especially from Caribbean, South an Central America.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Shelters, Housing
Refer to the different shelters according to their need. Also, if the client is a domestic violence, we will contacts one of our network contact to refer the case.
Seniors Programs Assistance
Directed to the proper agency according to the need.
Where we work
Awards
Affiliations & memberships
Hispanic Federation 2020
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Average number of service recipients per month
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Shelters, Housing
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Since we are community Partner of Department of Children and Families, families have to renew their benefits every 6 months for food stamps and medicaid. For Seniors for their medical insurance.
Number of participants reporting no relapse 6 months post-program
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Economically disadvantaged people
Related Program
Seniors Programs Assistance
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Average number of days taken to respond to customers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Shelters, Housing
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We serve the clients on daily operational days even if it's an emergency during weekends.
By making an analysis of the successful stories of clients that through their process felt empowered, transformed, and educated to continue daily life but nor being the same person.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People of Latin American descent
Related Program
Shelters, Housing
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goal is to enable individuals and families to leave government assistance behind and become self-sustainable: employed, living in a home with food on the table every night, and re-discovering their families. ACAC wants to help people transform their lives in a positive and productive direction.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
· Access Community Awareness Center, Inc. will review and deepen its existing programming and services over time to ensure that they are state-of-the art for working effectively with the target demographic, utilizing advancing technology to facilitate operations. The model emphasizes board member decision-making and community participation and integration. We are committed to ensuring that all of its programs are exemplary.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
In our Belief, by having the proper Structure and Means to help everyone in their time of needs.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have accomplished in gathering over 40 different assistance from different government, private, and non-profit organizations have for those that are not aware that they exist. Also, in 2019 we assisted over 100 families with different necessities such as food, furniture, medicaid, medical insurance, etc. Especially families from Venezuela.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
Our costumer, low income families and individuals that comes to apply for food stamps from Department of Children and Families. Immigrants are recently arriving in the Orlando, Fl area, Seniors with difficulty finding Medicare advantage insurance, Homeless seeking shelters and basic necessity, individuals who are domestic violence victims. Any other person that needs emergency assistance.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Paper surveys,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
We have created an assessment form as part of the advocates network referral system for the final outcome as part of our work flow. Also, to keep track on the quality of referrals customer services they render.
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our board, Our funders, Our community partners,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
On our final advocate assessment form, we write the final outcome of the assistance. Depending on the results, then, we make adjustments for improvements.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We act on the feedback we receive,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection,
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Access Community Awareness Center Inc
Board of directorsas of 05/25/2022
Mrs. Brenda Santana
Sergio Diaz
Vice President of Health Plan Market
Daisy Morales
Orange County Commissioner Soil and Water
Brenda Santana
Founder/CEO
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
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Disability
No data
Equity strategies
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- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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